When I first created my blog search engine, it was a page within the SproutWorks website. I eventually bought sproutsearch.com and mirrored the content there, while also leaving it on SproutWorks. The traffic to SproutSearch was very low until around May, when I made the search engine organize the blogs into topic pages. The traffic to both sites climbed, with SproutWorks getting a lot of traffic (for me, anyway). At some point, SproutWorks traffic dropped considerably, while SproutSearch continued to climb. Now, they get about even traffic levels.

I am assuming that one, or both of these sites have been penalized because they share the same content. So, today I am only listing a few blogs in each topic on SproutWorks, while keeping the full content on SproutSearch. I am hoping that SproutSearch will gain at least as much traffic as I will lose on SproutWorks.